The French National Research Agency has published its Open Science Barometer for 2024

The French National Research Agency (ANR) has published the latest results from its open science monitoring barometer which measures the rate of openness of publications resulting from generic calls for projects (AAPG), specific calls and France 2030 calls.

Measuring the rate of open access is among of the ANR’s commitments to open science, namely ‘Favoriser l’accès ouvert immédiat aux publications scientifiques’ (promoting immediate open access to scientific publications).

There has been a steady increase in the open access rate which has now gone up by over 23 points since 2019 to reach 88.6% in 2024. The barometer also provides information on the open access mode for publications resulting from ANR calls for projects (open archive only, publisher’s website only, open archive and publisher’s website) by comparing these with all French publications. In this case, there has again been a clear increase in publications that are available in an open archive alone or in both an open archive and on a publisher’s website, with the rate of publications listed in an open archive rising from 66% in 2016 to 85% in 2023. The barometer also gives information on open access by discipline and its beta version informs those interested on the proportion of publications that result from an ANR-funded project and mention data sharing.

The ANR’s open science barometer is a variation on the French Open Science Barometer and nearly 70 organisations across France have already set up a local barometer.

The ANR’s open science barometer: https://anr.fr/en/anrs-role-in-research/commitments/open-science/the-anr-open-science-monitor/